Presentations Glossary

Guy Kawasaki

The former chief evangelist for Apple and current chief evangelist for Canva, Guy Kawasaki is known the world over. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation and is an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is the author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and nine other books.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Guy Kawasaki at the Presentation Summit 2015
October 26, 2015

The World’s Best Presentation Contest: Conversation with Rashmi Sinha
September 3, 2008

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Tagged as: Guy Kawasaki, Personality

Richard E. Mayer

Many people have opinions about PowerPoint, but few can speak on the topic with the authority of Richard E. Mayer, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Named the most prolific researcher in the field of educational psychology, Richard is the author of 18 books and more than 250 articles and chapters. His 12 years of research in multimedia learning and problem-solving have important implications for PowerPoint users.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Voice Effect Marshalling
February 05, 2008

The Cognitive Load of PowerPoint: Interview with Richard E Mayer
January 20, 2004

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Tagged as: Personality, Richard Mayer

Pictures – Appearance: Advanced Background Removal Options for Pictures in PowerPoint

We already showed you how to remove the background from an inserted picture in PowerPoint. This process works great for simple pictures that have fairly distinct foreground and background areas. However, if the picture is a little crowded, or does not have clearly demarcated areas, you need to manually select the areas to be retained or removed in the picture using some fairly advanced background removal options.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Apple Mac

Advanced Background Removal Options for Pictures in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 09 05 02
Previous: 09 05 01 Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint
Next: 09 05 03 Picture Borders in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 09-05, Pictures - Appearance, Pictures and Visuals, PowerPoint Tutorials

Joel Harband

Joel Harband heads Tuval Software Industries, based in Israel. Their best-known product is Speech-Over, a PowerPoint add-in that enables PowerPoint slides to incorporate narrations using automated voices.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where she has been featured:

Speech-Over Studio 2.5: Conversation with Joel Harband
April 1, 2008

Voice Effect Marshalling
February 5, 2008

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Tagged as: Joel Harband, Personality

Pictures – Compression: Set Document Resolution in PowerPoint

One of PowerPoint’s greatest qualities is that you can get all sorts of content from disparate sources and add them all within one presentation to create a unified document. Pictures are one of the most important content types you add to your slides. However, each picture you insert may have different resolutions, and thus even though you may have sized your picture to look like a small postage stamp on your slide, it may be increasing your file size by several megabytes.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Set Document Resolution in PowerPoint 2016

Set Document Resolution in PowerPoint 2013

Set Document Resolution in PowerPoint 2010

Tutorial Code: 09 03 02
Previous: 09 03 01 Compress Pictures in PowerPoint
Next: 09 04 01 Crop Pictures in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 09-03, Pictures - Compression, Pictures and Visuals, PowerPoint Tutorials